Human population is not has important has vehicle population. There is currently 6.82 million metres of road in SGP.If we assume every vehicle is 5 metres long (corolla is about 4.47m) as an average, it would come up to 4.78 million metres for the 956704 vehicles registered, with 2 metres to spare between 2 other vehicles. If 60% of the vehicles start run on 50% of the most populated roads and you have traffic lights, 1 lane exit roads, a slow vehicle, you tell me. Vehicle population will continue to grow by 0.5% per year. Looking at where everyone likes to go and the built up situation in those areas with very little road expansion and more people walking around to further slow traffic, you tell me. BTW, orchard road is 2.2km road. I give you 4 lanes to make everyone happy or 8.8km equivalent of road. So 5 metres per vehicle back to back means Orchard road can take 1760 vehicles. Ngee Ann City and Ion alone can accommodate up to that number of vehicles. I am very relaxed at our bozos planning skills. In 2001, there was 708,370 vehicle population. So the car population has grown about 35% since then. You tell me. BTW, since 1990, vehicles were allowed to grow 3%. So if you deflate backwards, there was 521,000 vehicles back then. So that would mean in the past 20 years, vehicle population grew by around 84 percent, but how about land in Singapore and the roads in congested areas? Has Orchard Road grown longer?
